No; I'd rather see kids live. You can take every AR-15 out of the country and it won't stop school shootings. Many school and other mass shootings are handguns.
You can ban large capacity magazines but it won't reduce the number of dead. In most successful successful mass shootings, school or otherwise, AR-15 or otherwise, the shooter changes magazines at least once, often more than once. Granted, this is an extreme example but it shows just what can be done with a revolver, 16 shots, including two reloads, in 4 seconds.
Here's a more reasonable expectation, still just a few seconds to reload a revolver
If you want to see kids live, and I don't believe any anti-gun Democrat does, then protect the children rather than attack the gun. The first two things that can be done before kids go back to school in the fall, and the very first even before they return for summer school, are:
- Temporarily, but immediately, put armed security at every school door. Either off-duty cops or retired military or, if it's the only way, on-duty cops.
- Harden the schools to restrict access:
- Update all school doors to automatically close and lock, to be intrusion resistant, to report to the school office, district office, school security and the local police every time a school door is opened and closed,
- Single point of entry when the school is occupied including man traps.
- Tall fences, walls even, around schools.
- When schools are properly hardened, the number of armed guards could be reduced to the main entry with the guard moving to other entries when needed - supply deliveries, etc.
Longer term things to work on are mental health and the damage done to children by the left telling all children that they are either in the abused/oppressed class or are abusers/oppressors. No child goes through public, or most private, schools today being told that they're wonderful people with great opportunities ahead of them.
Ensure that the government has zero authority to close schools in any health or pandemic for more than enough time to sanitize a facility that was exposed. We use to quarantine the sick and exposed, not the healthy. Ban mandatory masks and other things that lead to child insecurity. Quit telling children without a mask that they're murdering their teachers.
All of the causes of school shootings lie directly at the feet of the left and the Democrats - without exception. And then the Democrats want to place the blame on guns owned by law-abiding Americans.